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Privacy-focused messaging app Signal has been flying high in the Dutch app stores this past month, sitting in pole-position for much of it.
    • brrt@sh.itjust.works
      161·
      4 months ago

      Milk is getting more expensive. Moral of the story: Buy a cow.

      I really wish people would stop being so delusional about the average person’s technological abilities. jUsT TeLL grAn To sPin Up a mATrIx SErvEr… stfu

        • brrt@sh.itjust.works
          31·
          4 months ago

          Sorry for being harsh at the end. I just see this notion too often.

          But still, your option b) is not self hosted. Maybe a better word to use would be decentralized then?

          • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
            2·
            4 months ago

            That’s just pedantry. ‘Selfhosted’ never meant that every single user has to host it themselves.

            • brrt@sh.itjust.works
              3·
              4 months ago

              It’s not pedantry, it’s using the right terminology.

              And yes, self hosted means hosted by yourself. It’s in the name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting_(web_services)

              The promise of self hosting is that you own your data which may be better for privacy/security if you know what you are doing. The same doesn’t apply if you have to trust a third party, even if it is a friend/family member who provides you with a service they host. They become a service provider to you.

              • boonhet@lemm.ee
                4·
                4 months ago

                self hosted means hosted by yourself

                A lot of selfhosters share with family. I’m not gonna make my wife spin up her own servers when she can use mine.

                • brrt@sh.itjust.works
                  0·
                  4 months ago

                  And what would you call your wife in this scenario? A selfhoster? Or a user of a service hosted by boonhet?

                  She’s not using a selfhosted service, she’s using a boonhet-hosted service. Because she has no control over the service or her data.

    • jimmy90@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 months ago

      true but this is not yet easy enough for normal humans. selfhosting anything is not yet easy enough

      • Lazycog@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        4 months ago

        And is potentially even less secure if someone who has no idea about managing a server at all tries to spin up an online service.

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
      1·
      4 months ago

      No way in hell my relatives are going to use a messenger I selfhosted. My brother doesn’t even use Signal for whatever reason, even though even my grandmother has it.

        • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
          1·
          4 months ago

          Kinda is, though - regular people have a lot more trust in centralized services, and Signal has a very large userbase compared to anything selfhostable. And IME they really, really hate installing new messengers.

          Plus, selfhosted E2EE would still be just as illegal as Signal. Many people won’t be willing to participate in illegal activity, and if you just don’t use E2EE on your selfhosted solution the usefulness seems rather dubious.